Adoption

Lilla Hjärtat är fallet som slutade i en tragedi och som berörde hela Sverige. Treåriga Esmeralda sveks av myndigheterna och tvingades lämna det familjehem som hon hade vuxit upp i sedan sju veckors ålder. Här får vi med familjehemsmamman Melinda ...

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APRIL 2024 REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A literary love child of Jonathan Franzen and Anne Tyler . . . outstanding and highly enjoyable' Obs...

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"mycket lättillgänglig och intressant" BTJ Maria Jung Yoon adopterades från Sydkorea till Sverige 1968. En flicka på två och ett halvt år och ett äldre, barnlöst par i Norrköping, det kan väl bara sluta lyckligt? Men i själva verket är h...

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Damian longs for home, but one man stands in his way Damian is just seven when he is taken in by foster carer Cathy Glass. His mother, Rachel, loves her three young children dearly, but she is vulnerable, naive and unable to cope on her own. Cathy...

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Cruel To Be Kind is the true story of Max, aged 6. He is fostered by Cathy while his mother is in hospital with complications from type 2 diabetes. Fostering Max gets off to a bad start when his mother, Caz, complains and threatens Cathy even befo...

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A MAJOR AMAZON PRIME TV SERIES'Just read it . . . Outstanding' Matt Haig'To say I love this book is an understatement . . . It moved me to tears' Reese Witherspoon'Beautifully written, completely charming, and extremely wise on the subject of adol...

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Familjen Ardenfors har varit familjehem, jourhem och kontaktfamilj för ett stort antal barn under mer än 20 års tid. I boken delar Thomas Ardenfors rakt och öppet med sig av sina erfarenheter av hur det är att vara familjehemspappa - vilka glädjeä...

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Familjehemsmamman Melindas egna ord om kampen för barnen. Lilla Hjärtat är fallet som slutade i en tragedi och som berörde hela Sverige. Treåriga Esmeralda sveks av myndigheterna och tvingades lämna det familjehem som hon hade vuxit upp i sedan sj...

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Lara was seven when her birth mother died from a drug overdose. With no extended family to look after her, she was put into foster care. The care system failed Lara and now she is failing her son. Lara and her one-year-old son, Arthur, are brought...

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När Ejvor Jonsson är ett år gammal kommer Jakob De Geer på besök på barnhemmet där hon bor. När han får se den ljuslockiga flickan slita en nalle från en pojke, slå honom i huvudet med den och ilsket skrika "Min! Min!" säger han direkt: "Den där s...

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Innocent is the shocking true story of little Molly and Kit, siblings, aged 3 years and 18 months, who are brought into care as an emergency after suffering non-accidental injuries. Aneta and Filip, the childrens parents, are distraught when their...

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Tilly hates her stepfather, Dave. He abuses her mother, but she refuses to leave him. Frightened for her own safety, Tilly asks to go into foster care and is placed with Cathy. Tilly arrives with a graze on her cheek and Cathy becomes increasingly...

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The true story of a 6-year-old boy with a dreadful secret. Oskars school teacher raises the alarm. Oskars mother is abroad and he has been left in the care of friends, but has been arriving in school hungry, unkempt, and with bruises on his arms, ...

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When foster carer, Cathy Glass, is asked to foster Darcy-May, a two-day old baby, she is very concerned. The baby is coming to her straight from hospital and will have no contact with her teenage mother, Haylea. Even more worrying, she will be bro...

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Little Jamey, 2 years old, is placed with experienced foster carer, Cathy Glass, as an emergency. The police and social services have no choice but to remove two-year-old Jamey from home after his mother leaves him alone all night to go out partyi...

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Finding Stevie is a dark and poignant true story that highlights the dangers lurking online. When Stevies social worker tells Cathy, an experienced foster carer, that Stevie, 14, is gender fluid she isnt sure what that term means and looks it up. ...

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NOMINATED FOR SIX OSCARS, INCLUDING BEST PICTURE, SUPPORTING ACTOR AND SUPPORTING ACTRESS . . . Aged just five, Saroo Brierley lost all contact with his family in India, after waiting at a train station for his brother who never returned. Discover...

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Hole in My Heart is a memoir of love, loss, and redemption. Meticulously researched, the book shows how Dusky became a major force in changing laws to give adopted adults access to their birth records.

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A heartbreaking true story of a broken family and the foster carer who wants to keep them together The Watsons are no strangers to sibling placements but when Casey takes the call from her supervising social worker one frosty January morning, she ...

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Impossible to put down, makes you laugh and cry, Sophies story is inspirational. It gives us so much hope and encouragement. I dont think we would be where we are on our own journey without her advice. OLLIE LOCKE A read so twisty your heart pound...

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A redemptive story of family, forgiveness, and the journey to self-acceptance.   "Our adopted angel"-that's what Danielle's adoptive parents called her.  She grew up adored, doted on, unconditionally loved. It wasn't until she was i...

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Jackson is aggressive, confrontational and often volatile. His mother, Kayla, is crippled with grief after tragically losing her husband and eldest son. Struggling to cope, she puts Jackson into foster care. Cathy, his carer, encourages Jackson to...

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Darina växte upp i ett kärlekslöst barnhem i Tjeckoslovakien. Hon omhändertogs av myndigheterna 6 månader gammal och var på barnhem tills hon som 4-åring blev bortadopterad. Som rom var hon oönskad - alla romska barn valdes sist! Från tiden på bar...

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Thomas Ardenfors har, tillsammans med sin familj, varit jour- och familjehem i nästan 30 år. För några år sedan skrev han boken En extra plats i hjärtat, en bok som spritts över hela landet och används i en mängd olika sammanhang. En familjehemspa...

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From Torey Hayden, the number one Sunday Times bestselling author of One Child comes The Invisible Girl, a deeply moving true account of a young teen with a troubling obsession and an extraordinary educational psychologist's sympathy and dete...

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Evie and Elliot are scrawny, filthy and wide-eyed with fear when they turn up on foster carer Maggie Hartley's doorstep. Aged just two and three years old, this brother and sister have hardly set foot outside their own home. They have been pr...

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A 5-year-old boy, Ethan, is brought to Casey in the middle of the night after the sudden death of his young mother after a drug overdose. Estranged from her parents, Ethans mum had been abused by her ex-partner, and began taking drugs to cope. Eth...

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The extraordinary true story that inspired an acclaimed film starring Steve Coogan and Judi Dench, Philomena, by Martin Sixsmith, is a gripping tale of heartache, hypocrisy and ultimately, redemption. It follows the lives of Philomena Lee, who, af...

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Allt fler barn och unga behöver få bo utanför sin egen familj under en kortare eller längre tid. Den vanligaste och bästa vårdformen för detta är jour- och familjehem. Många familjer är engagerade i att ta hand om andras barn i sitt hem men vi beh...

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From Torey Hayden, the number one Sunday Times bestselling author of One Child comes Lost Girl, a poignant and deeply moving account of a lost little girl and an extraordinary educational psychologist's courage and determination. Jessie is ni...

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